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Lost My Contacts ......Heeeelp!!

This is a discussion on Lost My Contacts ......Heeeelp!! within the Motorola Atrix Help forums, part of the Motorola Atrix Support Forum category; The contacts on my phone (the ones I care about) were replaced with contacts from my facebook and web-based email accounts (the ones I don't ...

Lost My Contacts ......Heeeelp!!

The contacts on my phone (the ones I care about) were replaced with contacts from my facebook and web-based email accounts (the ones I don't care about).

It appears the contacts that I had in my phone have been replaced with facebook, yahoo and gmail contacts (which I don't use), and I can't figure out why it happened, nor can I figure out how to get my contacts back.

I know I can go to the ATT store and have them take the contacts from my old Blackberry and put them back onto my shiny new Atrix. But, the real problem is that this is the 2nd time this happened, and I'd like to figure out how to prevent it from happening again.

I believe it has something to do with my Yahoo email account because after I added the Yahoo account, I realized that my contact list only had my Yahoo contacts. Then, I realized it added my facebook friends to my contacts, then I realized it added my gmail contacts. Those are NOT my real contacts that I keep in my phone and I don't want them there.

The first time it happened was after I added my gmail to the phone.

I hope somebody knows why this happened and can explain how to prevent it from happening in the future.

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give.

Edit: Oh, I'd also like to figure out the best way save my contacts from my phone so if this ever happens in the future I can fix it myself rather than going to the ATT store.

One thing that the ATT people did for me last night was to save my contacts to my sim card. That way, she said the contacts won't be deleted. However, I think Motoblur is the culprit. It takes all my social stuff and adds it to the contacts. I'm not sure why it's overwriting my other contacts though. She also said to go into the settings of each of my social media type accounts (facebook, yahoo, gmail, etc) and make sure to unselect the option for adding the contacts to your phone.

had the same problem. click on the blue contacts buttom then click the settings button (bottom left 4 boxes) click more then import/export then press (under the import contact) SIM card. Hope this helps. I deleted my fb from motoblur, I have all the people I want to talk to under my sim contacts.

If you have sync enabled your contacts are safe. Go to contacts, menu button and hit import/export. Now try to import from SD.If that doesn't work go to contacts, menu button, accounts, manage accounts, select your gmail account, sync contacts.The third way is to use some data recovery software to recover deleted contacts from android with one click.
Good luck.

One thing that the ATT people did for me last night was to save my contacts to my sim card. That way, she said the contacts won't be deleted. However, I think Motoblur is the culprit. It takes all my social stuff and adds it to the contacts. I'm not sure why it's overwriting my other contacts though. She also said to go into the settings of each of my social media type accounts (facebook, yahoo, gmail, etc) and make sure to unselect the option for adding the contacts to your phone.

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One thing that the ATT people did for me last night was to save my contacts to my sim card. That way, she said the contacts won't be deleted. However, I think Motoblur is the culprit. It takes all my social stuff and adds it to the contacts. I'm not sure why it's overwriting my other contacts though. She also said to go into the settings of each of my social media type accounts (facebook, yahoo, gmail, etc) and make sure to unselect the option for adding the contacts to your phone.